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Dust Devils

by Billyana

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A swirl of memories, dust to dust, losing someone you love, memories of place and times, the unforgiving heat...........finding stability and losing it again with those dust devils swirling memories around. My partner's cousin David Jackson inspired this song with his love for life, the outback, and heroics in his gyrocopter (over 8000 flying hours) along the Darling River, the blades swirling up the dust. This song is for Mary and her three sons.

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DUST DEVILS
Bill Tatnell Jan 2019

See your footprints in the river clay
Find some shade and rest awhile
Cockatoos above the treetops swirl
Total freedom, total wild

Moving shadows wake me from a dream
Hot summer swimming in the Darling
This is the place that we came from
This is the place where we belong

Today’s like fire inside a kiln
This heat can melt you to the ground
So intense - it burns the dust of love
That’s when I know your not around

Chorus
Time can mend a broken heart - they say
Dust devils spinning my world
Dust devils, dust devils - playing with my mind
Since the day you left me far behind

Dust devils chasing me again
Today I brush them all aside
Try not to take things too seriously
Small slice of freedom on this crazy ride

That melting feeling just passed over me
You whispered something in my ear
Heart skipped a beat and then it sank again
Dust devils spin and re-appear

I cannot leave the place that we called home
You’ve gone and left me far behind
So now I’m here - standing in your dust
You had to get there first this time

credits

released September 21, 2021
Music and lyrics: Bill Tatnell (Billyana)
Vocals, guitar, keyboard: Bill Tatnell
Recorded at my home studio with final production by Terry Latham at Impromptu Studios, Newcastle Australia
Photo credit: 'Outback Whirly Wind', K Tatnell

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Billyana Newcastle, Australia

Music inspired by the desert, the coast, and its people.

Written and performed by Billyana on a range of stringed, wind and skin instruments.

Influences include: Ben Howard, Cohen, Knopfler, Young with some Spanish and Irish undertones. ... more

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